CONTENTS:

Why BDD matters -- Patients speak -- What is body dysmorphic disorder? -- How do I know if I have BDD? -- BDD comes in many forms -- Painful obsessions -- Mirror checking, grooming, camouflaging, dieting and other BDD behaviors -- How BDD affects lives : social avoidance, problems at work and suicide -- Gender and BDD across the life span -- What causes BDD? Clues to an unsolved puzzle -- Aren’t we all concerned with how we look? BDD and normal appearance concerns -- Anorexia nervosa, obsessive compulsive disorder, koro and other disorders – are they relatives of BDD? -- Help for BDD sufferers : overview and medications -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy and other treatments -- BDD and the family -- Appendix A : brief description of selected psychiatric disorders -- Appendix B : instruments for assessing BDD -- Appendix C : co-occurrence of BDD and other disorders -- Glossary.